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Virtue Quotes
"No amount of money can fill your heart up with what kindness and compassion can."
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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"I almost wish I hadn't any conscience; its so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. I can't help wishing sometimes that Father and Mother hadn't been so particular about such things. Ah Joe, instead of wishing that, thank God that Father and Mother were particular and pity from your heart those who have no such guardians to hedge them round with principles that may seem like prison walls to impatient youth, but which will prove sure foundations to build character upon in womanhood."
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue."
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"Nobility is not only in forgiveness."
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"L'honneste est stable et permanent."
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"Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart."
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"The only reward of virtue is virtue, the only way to have a friend is to be one."
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"There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!"
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"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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"There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses, --only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it."
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"Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty."
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"They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity."
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"Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them."
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"Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved."
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"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."
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"Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!"
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"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
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"For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"We are made kind by being kind."
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"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."
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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"When someone is angry and hateful toward you ~ they spit out all kinds of venom, to inflict you with unnecessary hurt and pain. But when you know who you are within, and you stand by your truth, their venom cannot poison you, its arrow turns and points straight back at them! To be humble and virtuous is a trait of the noble and the righteous."
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